SunGard is launching a new industry utility for post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives operations to help global capital markets firms adapt to new market challenges and post-financial crisis cost pressures. This industry utility will enable derivatives brokers, including
As we’ve seen recently, the hedge fund industry is going through hard times and many doubt it will ever return to the glory days when hedge funds were the crème de la crème of Wall Street, says James C Paine
The dissident voice of the outspoken shareholder activist may have grown slightly louder in February, as Event Driven hedge funds led a strong month of hedge fund industry gains, with the HFRI ED: Activist Index posting the strongest monthly gain
Natixis Alternative Investments France has launched a new fund on its dedicated managed fund platform – the SIXTINA Harbert Event Opportunities Fund. This compartment of the Natixis Absolute Global SICAV is a Luxembourg-domiciled, UCITS III-compliant fund. The launch expands the
Sandell Asset Management has sponsored the launch of Sandell Re, a Bermuda based reinsurance company that can invest in the firm’s global event driven investment strategy. The strategy will be managed in a separately managed account with an investment objective
Members of the New York Hedge Fund Roundtable, a non-profit industry organisation committed to promoting ethics and best practices in the alternative investment industry, believe oil prices will remain steady for the rest of 2015. Questions about oil and energy
Asian debt is expected to outperform developed market bonds in 2015, thanks to healthy corporate credit dynamics, supportive global liquidity, stable economic and political environments and investors’ demand for yield. Joep Huntjens, Head of Asian Debt at ING IM, says:
The February 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR8,247 million (+24% compared to February 2014). The average daily volumes on equity index derivatives were down at 225,995 contracts (-15% compared with February 2014),
February was a risk-on month in markets, with investors deploying capital and equities rallying globally, while perceived safe-haven assets, such as US Treasuries, UK Gilts, German Bunds and gold sold off. The MSCI World index was up 5.9% in February,
Multi-strategy hedge fund manager Deimos Asset Management has launched a new hedge fund management business with a strategic investment from Ares Management. Deimos was formed through a management buyout of Guggenheim Global Trading, LLC, the former multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund
